| Alexandre Mebazaa | Universite Paris Cite, INSERM UMR-S (MASCOT), Saint-Louis and Lariboisiere Hospitals |
| Gerasimos Filippatos | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital |
| Carolyn S P Lam | National Heart Centre Singapore and Duke-National University of Singapore Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen |
| Peter S Pang | Indiana University School of Medicine |